Review Blog

Jan 18 2012

I love you book by Libby Hathorn and Heath McKenzie

IP Books, 2011 ISBN 978 1 9214798 9 2
(Ages 4+) Picture book. A book promoting the same sentiments as
Look, a BOOK! (Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood) but in an entirely
different way, I love you book, has short stanzas on each
page extolling the virtues of reading a book. So we see Dad reading
to the children, or the children being flown away on a cloud of
imagination, or talking about the words contained in a book and the
dizzying heights a book can take you. The picture book talks about
books good enough to eat, the smell and feel of books, the love of
stories read in the past and those still to come and those read over
and over again.
Each page is overwhelmingly colourful and energetic, as the children
roll about in bed, or take to the stage, or go under the sea, or
jump across piles of books. Enthusiasm for and a love of books is
revealed on each page, and all readers will find things to look at
and recognise amidst the scattering of people, animals and places.
Appropriately 2012 is the National year of Reading in Australia,
designed to promote reading and books throughout the country and
this along with several other books, will be read and reread as
teachers promote reading with their classes.
Fran Knight